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PORCINE
hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish
(adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; “piggish table manners”; “the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father”; “swinish slavering over food”
gross, porcine
(adjective) repellently fat; “a bald porcine old man”
porcine
(adjective) relating to or suggesting swine; “comparison between human and porcine pleasures”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
porcine (comparative more porcine, superlative most porcine)
Of or pertaining to pigs.
(derogatory) Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese.
Anagrams
• coprine, poncier, preonic
Source: Wiktionary
Por"cine, a. Etym: [L. porcinus, from porcus a swine. See Pork.]
Definition: Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog. "Porcine cheeks." G. Eliot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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